In 1994, Lezlie Hiner started ‘Work to Ride,’ a program for urban youth from low-income families or challenging environments. The program provides young people with a fun and challenging environment for gaining life skills and confidence
In the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, about 200 people work in shifts to search through the ash dump of a heating plant. Desperately poor, they are looking for unburned pieces of coal to sell. It’s hard work, but the only way to make a living for many of them during the winter
President Paul Biya after voting on Sunday in Yaounde told State media, CRTV, that the calls for boycott are coming from a “Minority political parties”, hence, it has no effect on the polls. The President further revealed that regional elections will hold in the near future, to polish Cameroon’s democratization process
Small and wingless, the hopping young locusts are the next wave in the outbreak that threatens more than 10 million people across the region with a severe hunger crisis
The 92nd Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 9th
A Texas-based startup is giving consumers a unique way to memorialize their loved ones, by turning their cremated ashes into diamonds…Food is love, as the old saying goes. Cooking a great meal is a way to say thanks or to show how much you care for someone. But at the Dog Tag Bakery they have a unique way of saying how much they appreciate military veterans
This restaurant in the town of Herndon in Virginia looks like a typical diner where whole families come to enjoy a hearty meal. But this restaurant serves more than just good food, it serves some people with very special needs
Posters calling Li a hero accused the Chinese government of trying to cover up the virus. The hashtag “I want freedom of speech” trended on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, receiving 1.8 million views before censors took it down
The clashes, which erupted overnight on February 8, were some of the worst ethnic violence in years in the Zhambyl region in southern Kazakhstan, sending hundreds across the border into neighboring Kyrgyzstan. It is not yet known what sparked the violence, which pitted ethnic Kazakhs against Dungans, a Muslim group of Chinese origin
In Leesburg, Virginia, near Washington DC, it’s well above freezing but that has not stopped scores of artists and carvers who come each year during the winter to turn ice into magic